From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American …

The Lost City of Z film will close this year’s New York Film Festival, Saturday, October 15th. James Gray’s emotionally and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy …

James Gray has written and directed six films, including “The Yards,” “We Own the Night,” “Two Lovers,” and “The Immigrant,” all of which premièred in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. His …

Jonah Weiner discusses my work at Slate. “Grann, a New Yorker staff writer since 2003, has written that he’s drawn to people ‘who get some germ of an idea in their heads that metastasizes until it …

I don’t get to take too much time from writing for The New Yorker, but I recently blogged at the Powell’s blog, which was a lot of fun, and this week I’m blogging The New Yorker’s book blog, “The Book …

On a cold January day in 1925, a tall, distinguished gentleman hurried across the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, toward the SS Vauban, a five-hundred-and-eleven-foot ocean liner bound for Rio de …

NON-FICTION: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann; Doubleday, $27.50. What it’s about: Col. Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in 1925 while looking for a mysterious …

Paramount has set “We Own the Night” helmer James Gray to direct “The Lost City of Z.” Gray will adapt the David Grann book for Brad Pitt to star in as British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett. The …

The great mystery of what happened to Fawcett has never been solved, perhaps until now. In 2004, author David Grann discovered the story while researching another one. Soon, like hundreds before him, …